O’Hare Hyatt Regency Hotel
9300 West Bryn Mawr
Rosemont, Illinois 60018
RPC/CEF 2007 36th Annual Conference
“A More Perfect Union: Greenlining Redlined America”
Registration: 8:00am – 2:00pm
All sessions, meal banquets and socials will be held at the conference hotel
Business Breakfast
Opening Plenary
“Mortgage Tsunami: America’s Foreclosure Crisis. Strategies for addressing this crisis and on how to stimulate economic mobility for America’s low wealth populations”
Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm
Location: TBD
- Program Description: Experts from across the country will present detailed information on the imminent dangers coming from the predatory sub-prime mortgage market and the over 2 million families that will enter foreclosure in the next 12 months. This is seven times the normal annual rate of foreclosure. Community and policy leaders will offer insight on how to prevent these foreclosures from occurring and how to keep minority neighborhoods from imploding as a result of these massive foreclosures. Finally, experts will offer an overview on the laws and regulations needed to protect minorities and low wealth borrowers from such practices and how to promote economic mobility for the America’s underserved populations.
- Dais Guest(s) John Taylor (President & CEO, NCRC ), Martin King (Chairman, Rainbow PUSH Coalition), Irvin Henderson (Founding President, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina), James H. Carr (Senior Vice President, Research, Fannie Mae Foundation, National Leader on Economic Wealth Disparity), Lloyd P. London (Director, National Anti-Predatory Lending Consumer Rescue Fund for NCRC)
Morning Session I
“Job Readiness Workshop”
9:00am – 10:30am
Location: Ozark AB
Program Track: Career/Employment Preparation
Morning Session II
“Increasing Investment Results Through Emerging Managers”
10:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Delta AB
Emerging managers continue to outperform their larger competitors: however, larger assets management firms continue to manage over 95% of the $7 TRILLION market. What are public and corporate pension funds doing to close the gap and experience better returns for their stockholders?
Program Track: Pension Plenary
Moderator: Les Bond, Jr. (Attucks Asset Management)
Speakers: Mellody Hobson (President, Ariel Capital Management, LLC), Eugene Duffy (Executive Vice President of Marketing, Paradigm Assets), Fern B. Jones (Managing Partner, FJ Co./THS Ltd.), Emma McIntosh (Director of Corporate Plans, Progress Investment Company)
Morning Session III
“How to Win Billion Dollar Verdicts”
9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: TBD
Program Description: The Trial Masters seminar will feature Attorney Willie Gary, along with world-renowned attorneys. The components of the seminar are opening arguments, jury selection and closing arguments.
Program Track: Legal
Moderator: Attorney Willie Gary
Sponsor(s): The Law Office of Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson and Sperando P.L.
Morning Session IV
“The State of the Automotive Industry for Urban America”
10:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Delta AB
Program Description: With companies downsizing and growth opportunities occurring simultaneously in the automotive industry: “Where Do We Fit?” Be on the frontline as automotive companies discuss their growth plan for now and beyond.
Moderator: Daniel Mujahid
Morning Session V
“M/WBE Procurement Opportunities”
10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: McCARRAN (B) ROOM
Program Description: How can we do business together? Corporate America representatives will speak about procurement opportunities that are currently available as well as give advice on strategies to overcome the incumbent supplier. How to beat (instead of just meet) the price of your product or service, and how you can master the learning cure of this 21st Century.
Moderator:Emmett Vaughn
Speakers: Barbara Lumpkin (City of Chicago), Tim Williams (Safeway, Inc.), Phillip Styles (Aon Corporation), Sharon Gardner-Crowe (US Cellular), Sandra Rand (United Airlines)
Morning Session VI
“National Oratorical Competition”
10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: SEATAC A&B ROOM
- Program Description:During this session the audience will be dazzled by our youth as they showcase their immense talents through the medium and power of eloquent persuasive speech.
- Program Track: Education
Morning Session VII
“National Oratorical Competition”
10:00am- 12:00pm
Location: Delta AB
- Program Description:During this session the audience will be dazzled by our youth as they showcase their immense talents through the medium and power of eloquent persuasive speech.
- Program Track: Education
- Moderator: Michelle Chambers (Education Program Coordinator, PUSH Excel)
- Oratorical Judges: Tyla Abercrombie, Melinda E. White, Dr. Terry McDonald, Gilda Walker
- Oratorical Administration: Barbara Cox-Timekeeper, Angelea Smith-Scorer, Linda Stewart-Door Keeper
Networking Break
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Press Conference
Time: TBD
Location:
Business Luncheon
“Greenlining Redlined America”
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
- Program Description: Corporate America, Clergy, M/WBE’s all come together to address public policy implications of our various business activities over the next few years. Our focus will be on business development initiatives for the small business owner.
- Program Track: Business
- Keynote Speaker Address: Alexi Giannoulias (IL State Treasurer), John Hofmeister (President, Shell Oil Company, Houston)
- Special Remarks: Alexi Giannoulias (IL State Treasurer)
- Remarks: Chuck Fallon (President, North America Burger King Corporation)
- MC: Jim Rose (WLS-TV)
- Honorees: Bo Anderson (Group Vice President, General Motors Corporation), Cathy Coughlin (Sr. Executive VP/Advertising & Corporate Communications, AT&T), Donna Simms Wilson (M.R. Beal & Company)
- Dais: Ken Lewis (Bank of America), John W. Rogers, Jr. (Ariel Capital Management), Joe Stroud (WJYS), Edward Whitacre (SBC), Stephanie Neely (IL City Treasurer), Reverend Charles Jenkins (Fellowship Baptist Church), Representative from West African Corporate Council, Stephanie Neely (City of Chicago Treasurer), Robert Blackwell (EKI), State Representative Dan Burke (D-IL), Cheryl Jackson (Chicago Urban League), James Reynolds (Loop Capital Markets), Pastor Marvin E. Wiley (Rock of Ages Baptist Church), Harold E. Ford, Jr. (Merrill Lynch), Valerie Jarrett (CEO, Habitat Corporation)
- Sponsors: The Nielson Company, North America Burger King Corporation, Safeway/Dominick’s
Networking Break
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Afternoon Session I
“Chapter Development”
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: SKY HARBOR (A) ROOM
- Program Description:: How, when, and why Develop a RPC Chapter in your area. We address in detail the importance of being apart of the National Chain. As our new and old chapters rapidly expand, we speak to those items that continuously arise, such as: their relationship to the National Organization, the selection and prioritizing of issues that are brought to the table, and even the dos and don’ts with the media.
Program Track: Education
Moderator: Davida Mathis
Panelists: Reverend William Howell, McClellan Wright (RPC Chapter Direct, South Bend, Indiana) , Reverend Isaac Fincher (11th Missionary Baptist Church), Michele Watkins (Collegiate Chapter Project Manager, PUSH Excel), John Mitchell (Chief of Staff, Rainbow PUSH Coalition), Carolyn Wiggins (National Director of Membership & Organizational Development, Rainbow PUSH Coalition), Pastor Walter H. Blalark (Living Gospel Church of God in Christ)
Afternoon Session II
“Prison Outpost”
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: SKY HARBOR (B) ROOM
A panel to compare the tragedy of Attica, the causes and non-thinking vow to change the dynamics of our prisons. Doing the same things get the same results. Correctional professionals invited to turn around the flow of recidivism.
Program Track: Prison Outpost
Moderator: Queen Mother Helen E. Sinclair
Panelists: Roger Walker, Jr. (IL Department of Corrections), State Representative Connie Howard, State Representative Annazette Collins, Former Warden Richard English, Superintendent Peterson (Joliet I.Y.C.), Prince Asiel Ben Israel (Former Gang Chief and now Drug Counselor)
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